Twitter Launches Music App

…and more from the tech world: a hot new 4K video camera, and a surprisingly neat way to get a job

…and more from the tech world: a hot new 4K video camera, and a surprisingly neat way to get a job

Twitter launches music app

After taking over We Are Hunted, a start-up that tracks the most popular songs that people are discussing on the social networks, many assumed that Twitter would launch a music app. Well those who did were not wrong – Twitter has launched music.twitter.com. But for now only the rich and famous can play with it. For those of you not privileged enough, we’re sorry but you’ll need to get to the back of the line all the way to next week. But then, seeing the potential influence Twitter has on our daily goings on, we think it’d be worth the wait.

Job in six seconds

The future looks bleak for those of you who go about looking for a job the traditional way, especially in the creative field. Take the example of Dawn Siff, an award winning journalist who spent 15 years in the media industry working with the likes of Dow Jones and Fox news Radio, was without a job for about six months before she decided to use Twitter’s Vine app to create a six second resume. Barely a month after she uploaded her “deadline Jedi” video, Siff landed a job at the Economist Group’s commercial unit as a project manager. It’s good to know that Vine is branching out from its news, advertising and porn platform status.

Phantom Flex 4K

When Sony and LG launched their 4k “Ultra HD” TVs, many jeered at the fact that Ultra HD content was not available. The Phantom Flex4K is the newest device that is fast changing that perception. This recently announced video camera can capture 4K footage at a numbing 1,000 frames per second, with the ability to be throttled down to a more regular 23fps, or anything in between. HD quality will feel pixelated once you drink in the visual splendour and clarity of this camera’s 4096×2160 resolution. We’re quivering with excitement because it’s just a matter of time until 4K becomes mainstream.

Google Fibre to Austin, Texas

Google Fibre – a gigabit broadband service that pipes high-def TV channels along with a megabit broadband service – will soon be available to the lucky residents of Austin. This service is likely to be up and running by mid-2014 (we hear it’ll take time for Google to build those costly new broadband pipes that can handle these speeds). Apart from Austin, Kansas City is the only other place to get Google Fibre. Google’s idea is to give its users “instantaneous internet”. But don’t hold your breath just yet people, we still have a ways to go before we’re likely to see this kind of internet utopia on our shores.